On the positive side, Senator Colin Bonini (R-Dover South) said “What if, a month before an election, people learn that one of their neighbors has provided some remarkable service to the community and decide that person is the very best choice to represent them as their next Senator. They should have the right to vote for that person by write-in and to have their vote counted. This bill is ‘anti-democratic’, taking basic rights away from voters that should stay in their hands. In America, government should not be in the business of telling people who they can vote for.”

Paging Dave Burris!!

Calling Charlie Copeland!!

Anybody???

I agree with what you are saying. When I read the bill it is easy to understand what the reasoning behind it is. They want to be able to keep someone from having a funded campaign without paying all the fees and yadda yadda. I am just curious what brought on this bill? I could see if there was some semi-successful write-in campaign, but there hasn’t been one, and I doubt there ever will be. This law smells of two parties keeping the masses under their wings. It is completely fucked.

I just emailed Senator Blevins, which I am going to assume will most likely lead to a bullshit response or no response at all. I am going to email the NJ (a lot of good that’ll do) and hopefully you all can get some press out there about this. It may not seem very important, but it is. It is just another liberty that is being taken away from us by elected officials.

Fuck them, we can do this!

Can you imagine if Bill Lee declined the nomination, but in September you began seeing huge bill b0ards, nonstop radio ads and glossy campaign mailers – funded by God knows who – all urging you to write in “Bill Lee?”

Even a moron can spell Bill Lee!

I don’t like the idea of a law that says my vote won’t be counted. That’s gotta be illegal somewhere somehow.

I admit I am pulling that out of my arse, but I thought that was the case. If so, this could be an angle in. If not, well, crap!

LG did have my thoughts on this — could we get a couple of hundred folks to file the paperwork (if there are no fees) in the last week of filing to gum up th system? Just some basic monkey wrenching. No campaigning necessary.

But you are right, this is crazy — having to file before a write-in campaign defeats the purpose, I think.

Thanks for the welcome too Since I began reading a while back, you guys have given me some nice daily thoughts to ponder over.

I think the design behind the bill is to stop someone from running for office without filing the proper fees and reporting their finances. For example, LG could post here that he wants to run for governor and for us to write him in. He could have a massive online driven campaign and do some serious damage. That is what the bill is designed to curb in my opinion. It is fucking sick.

And on another note, maybe I am just bitter right now, but “testing the limits” of our election office would do the same thing Rush Limbaugh wanted to do in Operation Chaos…. Make a mockery of the process.

Fuck, I am so pissed right now.